Iomega NAS - Drive Failure and Replacement Drive Won't Start Rebuilding

First off, let me say how disappointed I am in the ix4-200d product. I've had it a year in a half and was initially hoping to use it for testing and virtual machines. Its slow performance via SMB and iSCSI made it useless for these features. I was lucky to get 20 MB per sec during my initial testing.

I've used it for backup of my workstation using robocopy in a scheduled task once a week of all my primary partitions ever since - a sort of peace of mind backup system. I also had set this unit up for e-mail to notify me of any issues or RAID issues.

I received an error of disk 3 failing a few days ago and contacted Iomega. Longer story short - register the product within 90 days of purchase and save your proof of registration or Iomega will throw you in the cold.

My colleague gave me a used 1.5 TB disk and used it to replace the failed disk. After turning the unit back on, and logging into the web interface, I received this error:

So, I clicked I agree to overwrite, but once again I was greeted with the same error over and over.

No big deal, I have SSH access from playing with it previously to configure Ethernet teaming (to squeeze more speed which did nothing). Here's a tutorial to enable SSH - http://iomega.nas-central.org/wiki/Root_access_enabling_(Home_Media_CE)

• Connected via SSH to the unit
• Scanned the disks associated to the LVM - pvscan
• Confirmed the my new drive by inspecting the partitions with - cat /proc/partitions
  
  
• Cleared the new disks partition table, which happened to be sdc


• fdisk /dev/sdc
• o
• w
  To clear the existing partition table and then write the changes
  
  
• Reconnected to the web interface and after authorizing the overwrite of the disk once last time, I was able to see the RAID begin repair and rebuilding using my new disk.
  
  
  
  

Okey Mcsmokey Skiddly doo!